Have to agree with that.
As since was said long ago in this thread, when corpses are donated as biological research tissue, then the cryonics company can do what it wants with the corpse, subject to the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) [
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Now of course, that means they can experiment on the corpse, and then dispose of the body parts or corpse at their discretion, and no one is going to know anything about it.
So using the UAGA is the real "enemy of cryonics", as the body is legally no longer allowed even the protections of a pet cemetery.
Even an outsider can see that if someone really believed in "cryonics", then they would want it to be fully regulated as a cemetery, as then one assumes its harder for anyone to tamper with the corpses?
As far as a non-profit organization criteria, of course that is up to the IRS.
But speaking from previous experience, if a non-profit that is being misused by its board for themselves gets busted by the IRS, then they usually just close it down, and then open it as a new "religion" of some type. That gives them even more loopholes for taxes. (cryonic Venturists, etc).
Then when that "religion" gets shut-down, they take down the sign on the door, and open the next day with a new name and a new religion and try again.
If they are really bad and go to jail, then when they get out of 3 months in jail, they open a new religion first day out, with a new "non-profit" org.
John "Tubby" Miller from the former Gentle Wind Project would have fit right in with some of these cryonics operators, its the same seedy story, right down to the money for nothing and the sexual exploitation.
Just different "content" but the same story.
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Now watch the cryonics companies all try to switch to being cryonics cemeteries, and then triple their prices.
Alcor is not likely to willingly convert to a cemetery. If they did that, they would be required to employ licensed embalmers, and laymen wouldn't be able to dress up like surgeons and chop off heads. There are a disproportionate percentage of six-figure salary and benefits packages, tied to organizations affiliated with Alcor, and I think those are largely-dependent on Alcor pretending to be a research facility, and retaining their right to allow anyone off the street to "play doctor." Personally, I don't think Alcor meets the requirements of a non-profit agency, something I've previously stated, many times. They are preserving bodies, nothing more, as far as I can see, and, therefore, SHOULD be regulated as a cemetery.